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In a 2017 report that went widely unnoticed, a female captain in the Australian Army recommended a novel solution to combat stress: sex. More specifically, she wondered whether making sexual options, potentially including prostitution, available to soldiers in combat would help troops deal with downrange stress. You can read the report yourself here.
My understanding is that the original source of the article was in the Australian Army's official blog, but was pulled after it became, for reasons that are clear if you read the piece, extremely controversial.
Here's the thing: the author is not wrong. Well, not entirely, anyway.
As the article states, science shows that "sex helps satisfy personal, social and physical needs, reduces stress and is inextricably linked to physical and mental wellbeing." The thing is, the military brass doesn't see it that way.
Capitalism, is there anything it can't solve?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05 2018, @11:15PM
I took the ASVAB over 30 years ago. It was given in high school, and it was optional. I took it just to get out of my boring morning classes. You see, they didn't tell us that the test was used to recruit for the military. (My high school guidance counselors were particularly stupid.)
Taking the test proved to be a mistake.
Sure, I got another piece of paper saying, yes, I'm a smartie. I also got every branch of the military calling and calling and calling, begging to recruit me. Even the Coast Guard, which was surprising indeed in my corn-cursed state of residence. My parents, neither of whom wished to see me in the military, were quite cross with me.
The hectoring didn't end until one day I heard my mother in our front yard, screaming at the top of her lungs at two very large Marines who had come to talk to me without bothering to inquire if it were okay first. I headed out to explain to the gentlemen that I would not be joining their fine service... but explanations were not needed, as they saw at a glance that I am quite below the minimum required height to join any of the services. At least they went away.